Category: Featured
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Iran’s tentacles around Britain: Kidnap fears, murder plots and rape threats
BIG READ Iranian dissidents in the UK reveal their fears of being targeted and why they want the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps proscribed as a terrorist group Rob Hastings Rob is Special Projects Editor at i. He won the Legal Reporting Award in 2019 and was shortlisted for the Washington Post’s Laurence Stern Fellowship…
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Celebrating Dissent Oslo 2024 – Join Us
GET YOUR TICKETS HERE. More than 50 freethinkers from Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, France, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Morocco, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Tunisia, UK, Ukraine, USA and the Diaspora will gather in Oslo during 31 August – 1 September 2024 for…
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Fast-Defying Picnics and Atheist Day RUMadan
CEMB organised picnics at embassies that persecute those who refuse to fast during Ramadan on 18 March, including of Iran, Morocco, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. On Atheist Day, 23 March, we also asked atheists to take a shot of Rum for atheists and ex-Muslims across the globe. Since it’s Ramadan, we will use the hashtag…
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Tuesdays against Executions in Iran
Resistance against surging executions in Iran continue. On 25 January 61 women political prisoners in Evin prison held a day-long hunger strike in condemnation of the surge in executions, including of a protestor arrested during the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution, Mohamad Ghobadlou. On 30 January, there was a national strike in Iranian Kurdistan against the…
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World Hijab Day: Unveiling is Strength
Today is #WorldHijabDay #veiledinstrength #unveiledinstrength #no2hijabday See World Hijab Day, uno strumento di repressione può diventare simbolo di orgoglio? Sky Italy, 1 February 2024 Fighting religious intolerance is important, as is fighting intolerance against those who have no religion and are being killed for apostasy and blasphemy in countries under Islamic rule. But you cannot…
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PARIS APPEAL: Laics of the World Unite
FRENCH BELOW For the first time in France, an international conference brought together defenders of Laicity from around the world on December 8 and 9, 2023 at Paris City Hall. The conference was co-organised by the Association Laïques Sans Frontières (LSF) and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB), in collaboration with the Comité Laïcité…
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Iran: Revolution not Reform
Iran: Unica Soluzione, rivoluzione, Psiche, Issue 2/2023 ABSTRACT: The article critically examines Bahareh Hedayat’s open letter from Evin prison written in December 2022. The letter reveals a paradigm shift with respect to the so-called reformist movement – from working within the confines of a theocratic state to calling for its complete overthrow by revolutionary means.…
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#Sing4Freedom marking one year anniversary of the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini and start of Woman, Life, Freedom revolution in Iran
#Sing4Freedom marked the one year anniversary of the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini and the start of the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution in Iran on Saturday 16th September, Piccadilly Circus, London The global fight for women’s rights and freedom took centre stage as prominent women’s rights organisation One Law For All and the feminist liberation charity…
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The Premiere of Art of Resistance
CEMB Resident Artist Victoria Gugenheim has given a keynote address on Art and Freedom of Expression and shown an exhibition entitled Terror, Trauma, Transformation featuring CEMB’s activist work at the World Humanist Congress in Copenhagen during 3-6 August. ‘The Art of Resistance,’ a 30-minute documentary featuring Victoria and Maryam Namazie’s approach to freedom of expression…
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There are no rights in Islam, Maryam Namazie’s remarks in Durham and Berlin
See Maryam’s opening remarks at Durham University Union: Islam is not compatible with human rights Watch Maryam’s opening remarks at WBZ Berlin Social Science Centre: There is no women’s rights in Islam